If Oak Ridge were the fictional Land of Oz, the Spallation Neutron Source could certainly qualify as its Emerald City and Dr. Geoff Green as the wizard behind it all. This UTK physics professor and researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Physics Division, knows the neutron like the back of his own hand, and his research of the tiny particle offers hints to puzzles in cosmology, particle physics, and astrophysics.
Dr. Barry Goss, founder of one of the fastest growing private companies in the nation according to Inc 500, motivates students to sharpen their math skills by giving back to his graduate school alma mater.
Being from a small town did not stop William Brad O’Dell from rising to the top; as one of 11 students chosen from a national pool for the NIH-Oxford/Cambridge Scholars Program, this UT alumnus in college scholars is now studying at Cambridge University and conducting research at the National Institutes of Health.
Thanks to an innovative application of distance learning developed at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 30 college-bound science students in Fentress County, along with their classroom teachers, were able to seize upon a jewel of a learning experience at a time when they really wanted it.
Attracting the best and the brightest to graduate school at UT Knoxville has become much more likely thanks to three new programs centered in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Humanities and hard science came together in a mutually rewarding joint effort to stage Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, a play that entertains as it poses timely questions on the ethics of science.
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